Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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A rational army would run away.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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